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A "street book exchange" in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Book swapping or book exchange is the practice of a swap of books between one person and another. Practiced among book groups, friends and colleagues at work, it provides an inexpensive way for people to exchange books, find out about new books and obtain a new book to read without ...
Both paperback and hardback books may be traded, as well as audiobooks. Within the PBS system the value of any bound book is one credit, and the value of an audio book is two credits. [3] Pickering patented several embodiments of the program with the US Patent Office involving the swapping process of books, CDs and DVDs.
A trade paperback (also called trade paper edition and trade) is a higher-quality paperback book. [34] If it is a softcover edition of a previous hardcover edition and is published by the same house as the hardcover, the text pages are normally identical with those of the hardcover edition, and the book is almost the same size as the hardcover ...
A trade paperback differs from a graphic novel in that a graphic novel is usually original material. [1] [2] It is also different from the publishing term trade paperback, which is a book with a flexible cardstock cover that is larger than the standard mass market paperback format.
Liturgical book – a book published by the authority of a church, that contains the text and directions for the liturgy of its official religious services. Magazine – a collection of written articles published on a schedule; Mapback – an early form of a paperback with a printed map on the back cover
An omnibus edition or omnibus is a book containing multiple creative works by the same or, more rarely, different authors.Commonly two or more of the works have been previously published as books, but a collection of shorter works, or shorter works collected with one previous book, may also be known as an omnibus.
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This novel was released in hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback editions. Alien Seed/Rogue Planet by E.C. Tubb, foreword by Tim Mallett (two 1970s novels, as originally published, in a single hardcover volume).